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STANISLAS-JEAN DE BOUFFLERS (Lunéville, 1738 - Paris, 1815)

Chevalier, then Marquess de Boufflers. He made his career in the army, was also a poet, member of the order of the Knights of Malta ; his father was the Marquess de Boufflers, his mother was Marie-Christine de Beauvau, a friend -if not mistress- of the dispossessed King of Poland, Stanislas Leczinski.
In 1785 he accepted to serve as Governor of Senegal and the Island of Goree, post offered to him by the Marquess de Castries,Louis XVI's Secretary for the Navy.
Wise administrator, the elegant Chevalier is remembered for his lavish style of life and love affairs with the Signares of the Island of Goree among whom the well-known Anne Pepin, whose brother owned the present "Maison des Esclaves". Despite those love affairs, he was in a way a faithful man and married Madame de Sabran in 1797.

When he left Goree for France, not to ever come back, on December 29th 1787, the Signares are said to have gathered some of the sand he had just trodden upon. It is said he left 57 illegitimate children there.
He was one of the deputies for the Nobility in the States-General in Versailles in 1789 and was attracted by what were known at that time as "New Ideas".
Back to France in 1800, after the Emigration, he supervised an edition of his complete works.
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